the chief issue for this election is the economy. obama's going to offer at the debate a defense of his record and a little bit of small ball proposals for what he would do in a second term. basically expending on what he's already done. romney's response is going to be, you know, obama has screwed this all up, has gone about the economy entirely wrong. and when people ask him what would you do instead, his response is going to be, well, obama's done it all wrong. >> a replay of what we've heard over the past five or six months. >> well, we don't usually write our headlines in advance, but i would go with "unchanged game" as the most likely. the polling since the advent of television debates have shown very rarely do the debates actually alter the underlying dynamics in the race, number one. number two, the voters know that mitt romney has fundamentally a 1% mentality. i don't think he's going to change that perception in this deba debate. >> peter, do you think we'll at least get a few zingers? >> oh, romney has been practice them a